Former Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama and suspended Commissioner of Police Brigadier-General Sitiveni Qiliho will appear in court today for mitigation and oral sentencing submissions.
The matter will be called before Resident Magistrate Seini Puamau at 11am.
Both Bainimarama and Qiliho had their conviction overturned by Acting Chief Justice Salesi Temo in the High Court, where he found both men guilty of abuse of office, last week.
Bainimarama was charged with one count of attempt to pervert the course of justice while Qiliho was charged with one count of abuse of office.
According to the charges, Bainimarama sometime in July 2020 as the Prime Minister directed the Police Commissioner to stop the investigation into a police complaint, in the abuse of the authority of his office, which was an arbitrary act prejudicial to the rights of the University of the South Pacific which is the complainant.
Qiliho on the 15th of July, 2020 as the Police Commissioner directed the Director of the Criminal Investigations Department, Serupepeli Neiko, and Inspector Reshmi Dass to stop investigations into the police complaint by the USP, in the abuse of the authority of his office, which was an arbitrary act of prejudicial to the rights to USP.
